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Breaking news in the RedEye inbox today: JWoww is scheduled to appear at the Kmart in Avondale on Saturday. The "Jersey Shore" cast member will greet fans and sign her JWoww by Jenni Farley fragrance gift set, according to a press release. The set is available at Kmart stores. JWoww is scheduled to be at the store at 3443 W. Addison St. from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, according to the release

Breaking news in the RedEye inbox today: JWoww is scheduled to appear at the Kmart in Avondale on Saturday. The "Jersey Shore" cast member will greet fans and sign her JWoww by Jenni Farley fragrance gift set, according to a press release. The set is available at Kmart stores. JWoww is scheduled to be at the store at 3443 W. Addison St. from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, according to the release

TipsyCake bakery is getting slammed on social media over what some in Humboldt Park say are tasteless remarks made by its owner. Owner Naomi Levine said in a CitySoles TV interview posted on YouTube this week that she chose the Bucktown location at 1944 N. Damen Ave. to open a storefront where "nobody would be too scared. " CitySoles, a Wicker Park store, posts videos about Bucktown and Wicker Park businesses to its website . Levine opened TipsyCake in 2006 in Humboldt Park, where the pastries are still produced, but picked Bucktown for her shop because there were "too many...

Rampant consumerism? Check. The same 12 Christmas songs performed 4,300 ways on the radio? You betcha. It's holiday time again, people! With all the yuletide (second only to "delish" as the worst word ever created) cheer comes holiday party season. My inbox is bursting with people asking for Wingman tips for seasonal party domination during this, the season of raging, and like your inappropriate gymnastics coach, I've got your back. I took the six questions I hear the most and applied them to your work holiday party, the party you throw with your friends, and your New Year's Eve. Ignore this...

***1/2 (out of four) So beautiful it belongs on the Maxim Hot 100, “Prometheus” arrives in the wake of an awesome-looking trailer to disintegrate the existence of the “Alien vs. Predator” movies and revive the world's excitement about cinema's second-most famous E.T. Also helpful: Ridley Scott (“Blade Runner”) returns to the director's chair, where he was when the “Alien” series began in 1979. Finally confirmed as a prequel to “Alien,” “Prometheus” concerns itself with where it all began...

If I asked you what a "real man" is, what would you say? According to a Business Insider post last week from @GSElevator, an anonymous Twitter account run by a man who claims to work for Goldman Sachs, a real man gets his hair cut at the Mandarin Oriental Barbershop in Hong Kong and owns a handcrafted shotgun. Not gonna lie; I think he might not be right. What about you? When I say "real man," do you imagine a strapping young lad with rock-hard abs? The type of guy who can rock a tuxedo like James Bond while rapping all of Bun B's part in "Big Pimpin' " as he makes...

May 13, 2014 | Natalie Slater, @bakeanddestroy and Special contributor

The Internet is a pretty cool place. It gave us hamsters eating tiny burritos, unique languages that allow us to imagine what dogs and cats would sound like if they could talk and a Twitter account for The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik)--the Web's single greatest achievement, if you ask me. Through a series of inspirational Pinterest quotes and Upworthy videos, the Internet has also given many of us the drive to be epic. Each day we are reminded to live deliberately, eat like we give a damn and, most importantly, be amazing.

My friend Phil and I both belong to the cult of Bill Simmons, the sportswriter, mostly because he's one of the few sportswriters out there who shares our slavish devotion to NBA basketball as the world's crowning athletic league achievement. This means listening to “BS Report” podcasts religiously and getting through about 2/3 of every column (Simmons' columns regularly run upwards of 7,000 words, which means if you want to read each and every one to completion you have to give up either laundry, sex, or watching the actual...

Twenty-one-year-old political science major and Student Government Association Senator Jessica Thiesen said it was "really upsetting" to receive an e-mail from the Roosevelt University on Nov. 30 notifying her that a student had been sexually assaulted in the stairwell of the school's Wabash Building, a residence hall five blocks away from her dorm. "It was weird that it was just this matter-of-fact statement that we got in our inbox like, ‘Hey, by the way, someone was sexually assaulted, stay out of your stairwell!